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Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment (e.g., terracing land to prevent soil erosion, utilizing no-till farming to improve soil fertility, regulating emissions from factories and automobiles to reduce air pollution, recycling to reduce overuse of landfill areas).
Collect and organize scientific ideas that individuals and communities can use to protect Earth’s natural resources and its environment (e.g., terracing land to prevent soil erosion, utilizing no-till farming to improve soil fertility, regulating emissions from factories and automobiles to reduce air pollution, recycling to reduce overuse of landfill areas).
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Vocabulary
- Natural Resource
- Scientific idea
- Individual
- Community
- Terracing
- Erosion
- Soil
- No-till farming
- Fertility
- Emissions
- Pollution
- Recycling
- Landfill
Knowledge
Students know:
- Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life can have major effects, both positive and negative, on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space.
- Individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Obtain and combine information from books and/or other reliable media to explain how individuals and communities can protect Earth's natural resources and its environment.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Individual communities interact with components of environmental systems and can have both positive and negative effects.
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
Crosscutting Concepts
Systems and System Models
